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Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter
THE Lakers Foundation will host a basketball tournament at Khanyisile Sports Centre and Eveline High School today, as part of efforts to sensitise communities about gender-based violence (GBV).

GBV does not only comprise physical abuse, rape and attempted rape, but also includes sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, forced early marriage, domestic violence, marital rape, trafficking, female genital mutilation and economic abuse, and sport is not immune to these ills.

“This is our eighth edition of the Lakers Foundation tournament and this year we are holding the tournament as part of commemorations of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.

“We just want people to be aware of the abuse of women and that it should stop,” said Lakers Foundation administrator Charity Ndlovu.

Lakers Foundation was founded in 2009 with the aim of developing the girl child’s potential through basketball.
Teams taking part in the competition include Lakers, Angels, Legends, Mercenaries, JBC, Mzansi Wolves and Mavericks.

The tournament will be played under the theme “Orange the World: End Violence Against Women Now’ and seeks to encourage participation by every member of society to end violence, which affects more than 35 percent of women and girls in Zimbabwe. — @innocentskizoe